Eun-Ja Kang, francophone woman writer born in South Korea

Abstract

This thesis deals with the life and work of a contemporary Korean writer Eun-Ja Kang, who is writing her works in French. Up to now, Eun-Ja Kang is an author of two novels and her autobiography. The writing in the French language puts her among francophone authors in the broad sense of the word. However, this thesis aims at determining her position in the field of literature written in French from the perspective of two recent literary concepts: littérature-monde and transidentité. Furthermore, this work deals with thematic and stylistic analysis of her two novels and autobiography. Finding out common as well as different elements in her works, the analysis reveals the author's poetics